Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness

A Pourquoi story like no other

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set
foot on it for the first time, virtues and vices floated around
and were bored, not knowing what to do. One day, all the vices
and virtues were gathered together and were more bored than
ever.

Suddenly, Ingenious came up with an idea:

'Let's play hide and seek!'

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted: 'I
want to count, I want to count!' And since nobody was crazy
enough to want to seek Madness, all the others agreed. Madness
leaned against a tree and started to count: 'One, two, three...'

As Madness counted, the vices and virtues went hiding.
Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon, Treason hid in a
pile of garbage. Fondness curled up between the clouds and
Passion went to the centre of the earth. Lie said that it would
hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake, whilst
Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking. And Madness
continued to count:

'... seventy nine, eighty, eighty one...'

By this time, all the vices and virtues were already hidden -
except Love. For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where
to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know
how difficult it is to hide Love.

Madness: '....ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven...' Just when
Madness got to one hundred, Love jumped into a rose bush where
he hid. And Madness turned around and shouted: 'I'm coming, I'm
coming!'

As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found,
because Laziness had no energy to hide. Then he spotted
Tenderness in the horn of the moon, Lie at the bottom of the
lake and Passion at the centre of the earth. One by one, Madness
found them all -

except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of

Love, Envy whispered to Madness:

'You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose
bush.'

Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the
rose bush. Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry
made him stop. Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his
face with his hands.

Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from his eyes.
Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed out Love's eyes
with a pitch fork. 'What have I done! What have I done!' Madness
shouted.. 'I have left you blind! How can I repair it?'

And Love answered: 'You cannot repair my eyes.

But if you want to do something for me, you can be my guide.'

And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is

always accompanied by Madness.